The Political Inquirer

This graph- and this discussion- says it all:

It demonstrates that the average American- through personal decisions they have made- has continued to grow the amount of non-housing related debt they have taken on. I began increasing exponentially over the past decade since the bust of the dot com boom (where false income paid for large [...]

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After a long season of ‘deadlocked’ primaries, the media is finally conceding that Obama has effectively won the nomination. Though no one will outright say it, today’s headlines tell the story.
MSNBC: “Team Obama Preps for Battle”
MSNBC: “Analysis: Where Clinton’s Campaign Went Wrong”
CNN: “Obama catches Clinton is [...]

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From Norm, a story posted at FreeRepublic:
A Chicago pol’s wife gets a 200 grand salary bump (almost tripling her compensation) and a year later hubby seeks to channel a million bucks to the wife’s employer. Good old time Chicago poltics, right?
Apparently not, because the candidate in question is running on a platform of change, and [...]

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Good article at RadGeek on the militarization of the police over the last twenty years. Here, cops have nothing better to do than catch people speeding while they refuse to try to bust drug houses or solve the real crimes. I have spoken to a friend in Europe (Sweden to be exact) and he said [...]

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The GOP has an advantage here in picking last and can adjust to what Obama does.
Personally, I think Hillary is a non-starter here: the campaign has been too nasty, Barack doesn’t want the dynamic duo’s negatives, and I think I can conVince you that Michelle Obama Fosters serious reservations obout Hillary being one heartbeat away [...]

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We can all make mistakes and misspeak except we aren’t running for President. I play this for Mike O. just to show that they all misspeak at one time or another. We didn’t have recording devices then but I bet even Lincoln misspoke: occasionally. I think we judged a bit too harshly on some of [...]

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OK: campaigning is tiring work. But letting your brain either die completely like this either in math or basic civics does not speak well for his endurance as POTUS:

I’m not sure that this guy is right that this just reflects how Chicago politicians routinely count votes.
Just assume it’s brain flatulence from exhaustion, the most optimistic [...]

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To take a subject from a discussion I was reading, I want to bring up the Pledge of Allegiance:
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.“
The pledge I recited my whole life [...]

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John McCain responded to Barack Obama’s charge that he is “losing his bearings” by retorting to Obama that he is not “old.” Obama has not and will not inject “age” into this campaign because that is not his style. I would be deeply offended if the Obama campaign did use “age” as an argument in [...]

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As most of you know, I am generally against the war in Iraq. I favor protests against the United States’s foreign policy, and agree with Representative Ron Paul on how foreign policy should be conducted. I do not, however, condone Code Pink. They are, in my view, a whacky organization not bent on remembering the [...]

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“The race is close to over. If Mrs Clinton chooses to drag it out, it is hard to see how she could continue later than May 20th. By then, three more states will have voted: Kentucky, West Virginia and Oregon. The first two are strong for her, the last for him, but they are all [...]

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Sadly, I think Paul Begala is right. Democrats just cannot win without the working “blue collar” votes–if Obama can’t pick up enough of those, he will still get 45% of the vote but lose in a Dukakis-type fashion. Begala “The Forehead” had this to say:
On Tuesday night, we mentioned the dustup between two Democratic pundits, [...]

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